Madison Mailhiot

BBCS (MSc 2)

Dr. M. Olmstead

Hello! My name is Madison Mailhiot and I am currently in the second year of my MSc in the Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Sciences (BBCS)
program at Queen's. I also did my BSc in Psychology within the department and
had the privilege of working with Dr. Mary Olmstead in my third
and fourth year as I was (and still am!) very interested in drug addiction research.
For my undergraduate thesis, I looked at the dopaminergic differences in
morphine reward based on pain state in a pre-clinical model. I plan to continue
with this work in my Master's thesis, as opiate addiction is something that I
find really interesting. During my time as an undergraduate, I was also was
fortunate enough to complete a special directed reading course with Ron
Shore (School of Kinesiology and Health Studies) looking at
the vulnerability to addiction from a biological, psychological, and
sociological perspective.

Aside from academics, I have been involved with a number of
programs including Brain Reach, Brain Bee, Brain Awareness Day, Got
Your Back Week, Jack.Org, and the Queen's Equestrian Team, among others. If you have any questions
regarding things like how to get into graduate school, advice for undergraduate
courses, special directed courses, finding supervisors, getting involved in a
lab, completing an undergraduate thesis, etc, please feel free to contact
me! I'm more than happy to offer any advice I can and put you in touch with
people who may be better suited to answer your questions if necessary. I look
forward to hearing from you!